Closed Challenges

Religion in Middle-earth

Challenge Details

Take something from a holy text in our modern world, and move it into Middle-earth. Some ideas:

1. Have a Biblical figure meet a Middle-earth figure. Maybe Maglor helps David write a psalm? Celeborn could teach Abraham a thing or two about giving kingly gifts. Or Mohammed finds a relic from Harad.

2. Take a story from a religious text and recast it in Middle-earth. Maybe you could draw a parallel between the Flood and the Akallabeth, or Cain's banishment after murdering Abel and Maglor's wandering after the theft of the two Silmarils.

3. Use a verse from a holy text to justify a character's action. Or even just have them think it.

Of course you wouldn't be limited to these things. The idea is to take something out of the religion of our current world, and somehow tie it to Middle-earth.

Ten years after the events of The Hobbit a girl from the Lonely Mountain and a boy from Dale meet for the first time. OCs only, obviously, though draws heavily from both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. No objectionable material.

O all you, who pass by the way - attend and see, if there is a sorrow like My sorrow. In another land and another time, the man who loves birds meets the one with a strong voice. Fourth Age, AU.
MEFAs 2005: Winner - Post-Ring War
Mithrils 2005 - Semi Finalist, Fourth Age and Beyond

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